Milling Tools

Milling Tools

Carbide Milling Cutters for High-Productivity Metal Removal

Seco’s Jabro-Solid2 (solid square) carbide milling cutter is available in sizes ranging from 1/8" to 1". The versatile, square-shoulder mill is designed for both wet and dry general-machining applications in a variety of materials, including carbon steels, gray cast iron, stainless and super alloys.

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Milling Tools

Mills for Higher Removal Rates at Moderate Feeds

Iscar says its new milling cutters increase productivity in heavy roughing applications on limited-feed machines.

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Milling Tools

Indexable Mills Speed Cavity Cutting

Ballnose mills are a common choice for hogging out cavities on molds and form dies. However, these three shops have realized significantly faster cavity milling by switching to Ingersoll’s Chip Surfer modular tooling system, which features a cylindrical shape that keeps more of the tool engaged in the cut.

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CAD/CAM

Software/Tooling Partnership Promises Easier HSM

High-efficiency parameters are calculated automatically—partly using a slider that lets the programmer set the level of aggressiveness.

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Milling Tools

Supermill Full Line Catalog

Primary Cutter’s Supermill catalog features high-performance carbide end mills with an extensive offering of radius sizes and diameters.

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Milling Tools

Solid Carbide Thread Mills

An expanded line of solid carbide thread mills has been added to the company’s Threads-All program.

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Milling Tools

Carbide End Mills Feature Four-Flute Design

Superior Tool Service offers a four-flute rougher/finisher carbide end mill for cutting hard steel.

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Five-Axis

Composites Machining for the F-35

Lockheed Martin’s precision machining of composite skin sections for the F-35 provides part of the reason why this plane saves money for U.S. taxpayers. That machining makes the plane compelling in ways that have led other countries to take up some of the cost. Here is a look at a high-value, highly engineered machining process for the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft.

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Milling Tools

Insert Coating Makes the Grade in Progress Initiative

Exchanging turning inserts for Seco’s Duratomic-coated grade TP2500 helped this manufacturer reduce per-part and perishable tooling costs by 20 and 70 percent, respectively.

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Milling Tools

Expanded Modular Tooling System

BIG Kaiser Precision Tooling has expanded the Kaiser KAB modular tooling system capabilities to include the rigid, high-feed C-Cutter Mini chamfer mill line from BIG Daishowa Seiki.  

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